Keeping Early Finishers Engaged During In-Class Groups

Many professors use in-class group work to engage students. A frequently occurring problem with this approach is that some groups finish the assigned task before others do. This puts the professor in the position of having to manage the early completing groups while waiting for the rest of the class to finish. This Quick Fix article shares two approaches that can be used to address this situation—Question Cubes and Discussion Extender Cards.